Great effects often result from small beginnings. Your resolution will influence that of your friends and neighbors; each of them will, in like manner, influence their friends and neighbors; the example will spread from house to house, from city to city, till, among those who have any claim to humanity, there will be but one heart, and one mind—one resolution, one uniform practice.
Some pretty excellent polemic, and like most historical artifacts, relevant and resonant despite being written over two centuries ago.